16 Punished for Hospital Attack

+The Pentagon announced Friday it has punished 16 members of the U.S. military for a mistaken aerial attack on a hospital in Afghanistan last fall that killed 42. It added that it has adopted new rules to prevent such calamities in the future. Unfortunately, as high-powered weapons too often demonstrate, bad decisions sometimes trump good policies.

"This tragic incident was caused by a combination of human errors, compounded by process and equipment failures," General Joseph Votel, chief of U.S.